In Malice, Quite Close
Author: Lynn Ryder, Brandi
ISBN: 9780143121176
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 31 Jul 2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A sophisticated mystery debut in which priceless art and unspeakable desires converge/b>p>When French expatriate Tristan Mourault becomes enamored with fifteen-year-old Karen Miller, he "rescues" her from her working-class circumstances and stages her death to mask his true crime. Years later, Karen is now "Gis le" and lives with Tristan in rarefied Devon, Washington. She has married another man to keep up appearances, but when her daughter stumbles upon a secret cache of paintings-all nudes of Gis le-Tristan's carefully curated world begins to crumble. Set against a byzantine backdrop of greed, artifice, and manipulation-with tantalizing echoes of i>Lolita/i>-i>In Malice, Quite Close/i> keeps its most devastating secrets right up until the very last page./p>
ISBN: 9780143121176
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 31 Jul 2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A sophisticated mystery debut in which priceless art and unspeakable desires converge/b>p>When French expatriate Tristan Mourault becomes enamored with fifteen-year-old Karen Miller, he "rescues" her from her working-class circumstances and stages her death to mask his true crime. Years later, Karen is now "Gis le" and lives with Tristan in rarefied Devon, Washington. She has married another man to keep up appearances, but when her daughter stumbles upon a secret cache of paintings-all nudes of Gis le-Tristan's carefully curated world begins to crumble. Set against a byzantine backdrop of greed, artifice, and manipulation-with tantalizing echoes of i>Lolita/i>-i>In Malice, Quite Close/i> keeps its most devastating secrets right up until the very last page./p>
